Hi all,
I have definitely not been flooded by answers. I am getting the impression
that this forum might
not have been the best one to ask (i.e. I have a practical problem which
has little bearing with
implementation aspects / bugs / new features of Context).
I have gone through comp.text.tex, but it seems to be heavily oriented
towards latex.
Would you have any other direction I could go to and get some assistance?
Thanks for showing a door (;-)),
Emmanuel
Thanks Hans. Apologies if the discussion doesn't flow very much, I am
writing from down under.
In fact, what I would ideally like to do is the following:
1- Define a template with the boxes without any arrows.
2- Write numbered lists describing arrows that would be generated on top of
the template.
The overview might look like the following (with some bogus macro names):
% Somewhere in a template file
% Template for the boxes:
\StartMPTemplate[Boxes]
%
% ----- ----- -----
% ! ! ! ! ! !
% ! A ! ! B ! ! C !
% ----- ----- -----
%
\startFLOWcell
\name {a}
\location {1,1}
\shape {action}
\text {\ss A}
\stopFLOWcell
\startFLOWcell
\name {b}
\location {2,1}
\shape {action}
\text {\ss B}
\stopFLOWcell
\startFLOWcell
\name {c}
\location {3,1}
\shape {action}
\text {\ss C}
\stopFLOWcell
\StopMPTemplate
------------------------------------------------------------------
% This creates the first chapter
\startcomponent Right
\Chapter{Every to the right}
% Inserts a float with the proper figure and the proper arrows using the
difinitions coming afterward
\StartMPGraphWithTemplate[Right]
\IncludeFLOWchartTemplate[Boxes]
\StopMPGraphWithTemplate
% Place the float
\placefigure
[here,force]
[fig:chart1]
{Chart One}
{\framed{\FLOWchart[Right]}}
% normal itemised text that will be numbered and will dynamically add tyhe
arrows to the figure [Right]
\startitemizeWithFLOWchart
\arrow[labels=number,from=a,fromside=r,to=b,toside=l] This is the first
arrow.
\arrow[labels=number,from=b,fromside=r,to=c,toside=l] This is the second
arrow.
\stopitemizeWithFLOWchart
% This is the result
%
% ----- ----- -----
% ! ! 1 ! ! 2 ! !
% ! A !---->! B !---->! C !
% ! ! ! ! ! !
% ----- ----- -----
%
% The text should appear below the float as \startitemize would have done
% 1 This is the first arrow.
% 2 This is the second arrow.
------------------------------------------------------------------
% This creates the next chapter
\startcomponent Left
\Chapter{Every to the left}
% Inserts a float with the proper figure and the proper arrows using the
difinitions coming afterward
\StartMPGraphWithTemplate[Left]
\IncludeFLOWchartTemplate[Boxes]
\StopMPGraphWithTemplate
% normal itemised text that will be numbered and will dynamically add tyhe
arrows to the figure [Right]
\startitemizeWithFLOWchart
\arrow[labels=number,from=c,fromside=r,to=a,toside=l] This is the top
arrow.
\stopitemizeWithFLOWchart
% This is the result
% !------------------------------
% ! ----- ----- ----- !
% ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
% -->! A ! ! B ! ! C !--!
% ! ! ! ! ! !
% ----- ----- -----
%
%
The idea is that everything is dynamic:
- if the template changes, all the graphs get redrawn with the boxes at
their new place. The arrows get moved as needed.
- if the itemised text is changed (say the 'second arrow' line is written
before the 'first arrow'), then on the graph, the arrow from a to b would
be numbered 2 and the arrow from b to c would become 1.
What I tried is the definition you see at the top for the boxes. Then, to
generate the first graph, I would have:
---------------------------------------------------
\startFLOWchart[chart]
% Inserts template
\includeFLOWchart[template][x=1,y=1]
% Additional information on top of cell a
\startFLOWcell
\name {a}
\connection [rl] {b}
\comment [t] {\ss 1}
\stopFLOWcell
% Additional information on top of cell b
\startFLOWcell
\name {b}
\connection [rl] {c}
\comment [t] {\ss 2}
\stopFLOWcell
\stopFLOWchart
---------------------------------------------------
All I get is the template without any arrows.
I thought about trying to generate massive metafun macros. But I want the
itemised text to be text and not a graph.
Bottom line: is it possible? realistic?
I have been using MS Word so far to do that sort of thing. It has been
quite tedious to reflect any change in the box structure: 10 charts means
10 charts to re-edit.
As a bonus question that should be easier. Is it possible to draw other
sorts of arrows: i would like to draw straght line arrows that could follow
a diagonal (say go north-east instead of east first then north), or
circular arrows like:
%
% -----
% ! !
% ! !<--
% ----- \
% \
% |
% ----- /
% ! ! /
% ! A !<--
% -----
As usual any help is welcome.
Emmanuel
Hans Hagen
As you might have guessed, this breaks everything.
Has anybody an idea as to how I could do that?
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